Stephen MacLean, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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by | May 27, 2021

Ireland’s announcement this week that it is opposed to the Biden administration’s arguments for a global minimal corporate tax is good news. Whereas G7 countries have endorsed the idea, the intransigence of the Emerald Isle is encouraging. (Apparently, President Biden’s…

by | Nov 26, 2020

Mirabile dictu! It is rare for free-market advocates to find themselves in agreement with Pope Francis. He is, more often than not, against those very things that make free markets possible: private property, competition, and capital accumulation. Instead, the pope…

by | Nov 23, 2020

Wanted: A true “captain” for a national conservative party. Present occupant rudderless and risks foundering a once great force for political, social, and economic good. Righting the direction of the party will be an arduous undertaking, with an indifferent crew….

by | Oct 19, 2020

Brexiteers confront a quandary. At last week’s end came reports that the Boris Johnson administration, tiring of further chicanery from the European Union, effectively pulled out of talks for a UK–EU trade deal. Britain will instead trade in accordance with…

by | Jul 20, 2020

“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.” So Macbeth mused before murdering King Duncan — as may the most steadfast Brexiteer, brave enough to bear Britain’s current crises. While Brexit remains an unresolved…

by | May 12, 2020

Few will deny that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has chutzpah. His latest address to the nation, setting out protocols and timelines for relaxing restrictions imposed in aid of combating coronavirus, does Boris proud in the arts of tergiversation. Breitbart…

by | May 11, 2020

While attempts to contain and curtail the coronavirus plaguing most of the Anglosphere have plunged national economies into death-spirals, this past week the tide may have turned, as trade negotiators from America and Britain got back to work and began…

by | May 5, 2020

Worldwide, the coronavirus is delivering a double whammy: first to our physical health, then to our socioeconomic well-being. Enforced business closures and orders to practice “social distancing” are hurting communities no less than the obvious economic hits to production and…

by | May 3, 2020

British prime minister Boris Johnson, returning to work after recuperating from seriously contracting the coronavirus, gives his first address to the nation and strikes a sour note. Wanted was a Churchillian moment of resolution and defiance, if not to “fight…

by | Apr 28, 2020

Despite his famous blond mane, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is clearly no “Goldilocks.” She it was who took up with a family of three bears, sitting in their rocking chairs, eating their porridge, and sleeping in their beds. In each…

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